Daily Archives: August 5, 2009

CNN Reports on the Barack Obama Joker Image Circulating

When I first saw the image of President Barack Obama as a blood-mouthed cannibal death zombie in minstrel white-face, I thought swastika. In other words, this image functions, like a swastika, to shock and declare one’s eternal struggle against bourgeois democracy (with its messy … Continue reading

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Republicans are Fast Marginalizing Themselves on Healthcare Insurance Reform

Robert Reich today succinctly lays out the tape playing in Republican heads, and why they’re so wound up to try and block healthcare insurance reform: Republicans smell 1994 all over again. That’s when they defeated Clinton’s healthcare plan—and in doing so … Continue reading

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I Am a Tennis Ball of Two Minds, Pressing Against the Net

I made this image last night as an artistic representation of my lifelong and chronic Hamlet-like agnosticism: All rights reserved.

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Swine Flu (H1N1), Atheists, Agnostics and the Problem of Justification

Perhaps you’ve noticed that I post things on swine flu (H1N1) at this blog. Perhaps you’ve also noticed that I’m an agnostic. But if there is no God, why help others in a time of pandemic? Why not just look out … Continue reading

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Herbert Spencer: A 19th Century Darwinian Philosopher on the God Question

Herbert Spencer was a 19th century philosopher (and ally and popularizer of Darwin’s ideas). And for Spencer, beneath all the outward and diverse forms of religion there is a grappling by humans with an Ultimate Mystery that resists explication, and … Continue reading

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